Scarabaeinae Species in the Atoyac-Tehuitzingo Basin at Puebla, Mexico: Diversity and Use as Bioindicators
| Autor: | José Víctor Tamariz-Flores, Gonzalo Yanes-Gómez, Rosalía del Carmen Castelán-Vega, Benjamín Ortiz Espejel, Sonia Emilia Silva-Gómez |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0106 biological sciences
Disturbance (geology) Ecology 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology Biodiversity Vegetation Biology biology.organism_classification 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Deciduous Abundance (ecology) Insect Science Species richness Scarabaeinae human activities Agronomy and Crop Science Global biodiversity |
| Zdroj: | Southwestern Entomologist. 43:939-946 |
| ISSN: | 2162-2647 0147-1724 |
| DOI: | 10.3958/059.043.0411 |
| Popis: | Biodiversity indicator beetles were evaluated to establish diversity and abundance at four localities, including disturbed and conserved environments, to contribute to a conservation proposal. Species of coprophagous biodiversity indicator beetles were collected during four field trips to four localities, indicating a decreasing disturbance gradient in tropical deciduous forests from north to south, of the Atoyac-Tehuitzingo sub-basin, between 18.67° and 17.97°N latitude. Species richness indicated an increasing (non-significant) number (S = 3 versus 10) relative to the disturbance pattern; diversity showed an increasing (significant) pattern from north to south (H′ = 0.74 versus 1.17). The effective number of species was 1.5 times greater at Tulcingo (south) than at San Mateo (north), consistent with the diversity pattern. The richness of Scarabaeinae beetle species as indicators of diverse environments could be sensitive to disturbance of vegetation in the Basin; however, more work is needed to overrule the effect of other environmental variables. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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